In case you want to cite ROOT in your own publications, this is the preferred reference
- Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers,
ROOT - An Object Oriented Data Analysis Framework,
Proceedings AIHENP'96 Workshop, Lausanne, Sep. 1996, Nucl. Inst. & Meth. in Phys. Res. A 389 (1997) 81-86. See also http://root.cern.ch/
The most recent overview paper on ROOT
- Computer Physics Communications; Anniversary Issue; Volume 180, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 2499-2512.
ROOT — A C++ framework for petabyte data storage, statistical analysis and visualization.
A (mostly historically interesting) list of ROOT talks and publications
- Paper presented at the AIHENP conference in Laussanne 1996.
ROOT - An Object Oriented Data Analysis Framework - Slides of the presentation at CHEP'97 conference in Berlin.
ROOT - An Interactive Object Oriented Framework and its application to NA49 data analysis - Paper presented at the CHEP'97 conference in Berlin.
ROOT - An Interactive Object Oriented Framework and its application to NA49 data analysis - Paper published in "Interface Magazine" (Japanese Engineering Magazine).
The Power of Object Oriented Frameworks - Slides used in various presentations of the ROOT system.
This is a compressed tar file including a README file and about 40 Postscript files. - First three parts of a ROOT course.
Part1, part2 and part3 (the course is not finished yet and part 3 ends quite abruptly). - First comparison between ROOT, Objectivity/DB and LHC++ histOOgrams.
Paper and full source of used test programs. - Papers presented at HEPVis'98 at SLAC from Jan 28-30, 1998.
- ROOT Status Report
- Atlfast++, the Atlas Fast Simulation program based on ROOT
- gh2root, the GEANT3 to ROOT conversion tool
- New ROOT GUI Classes
- Paper published in the Linux Journal, Issue 51, July 1998.
ROOT: An Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework.
CHEP 2012
- ROOT overview presented by Fons Rademakers. Cling - The LLVM-based C++ Interpreter presented by Vassil Vassilev.
- ROOT I/O in Javascript presented by Bertrand Bellenot.
- PEAC - A set of tools to quickly enable PROOF on a cluster poster presented by Gerri Ganis and Martin Vala.
- Preparing for the new C++11 standard poster presented by Axel Naumann;
- ROOT: High Quality, Systematically poster presented by Axel Naumann;
- Improvements in ROOT I/O poster presented by Philippe Canal.
An Exhibition Booth for demonstrating recent developments in data processing software used at the LHC presented by the CERN PH-SFT group (in Kimmel).
Papers NOT by the ROOT team, but related in spirit
- The "Bazaar" software development process we try to follow:
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond.
In case you want to cite CINT, use the following references
- C++ Interpreter - CINT, Masaharu Goto, CQ publishing, ISBN4-789-3085-3 (Japanese)
- Concept and application of Cint C++ interpreter, Masaharu Goto, Interface magazine 1996Aug-Nov, CQ publisihing, (Japanese)
- Cint - embedding Tcl/Tk graphics, Masaharu Goto, Interface magazine 1997 Feb, CQ publishing, (Japanese)
- BeOS and ROOT, Masaharu Goto, Interface magazine 1997 Sep, CQ publisihing, (Japanese)
- Learning C++ with CINT, Masaharu Goto, C magazine 1998Apr-1999Mar, Softbank Co, (Japanese)
- ROOT: An object oriented data analysis framework, Rene Brun & Fons Rademakers Linux Journal 998July Issue 51, Metro Link Inc, (English)